A rare Italian silver sugar box
Interior gilt oval box resting on four supports, the domed slip lid with a pear finial. W 15; D 9; H 9.5 cm, weight 291 g.
Modena, last quarter 18th C., unidentified maker's mark "DS".
Literature
For more information on these marks cf.: Ferrari, L'arte orafa nel ducato de Modena e Reggio, Milan 1994, p. 25, 88.